Apple vs Apple

                                                                  

        Apple vs. Apple

Steve Jobs and STEVE Wozniak were right to worry about whether naming their new company Apple would cause trouble with the Beatle’s company, Apple Corps.

They were too inexperienced and naïve to hire a lawyer to formally investigate the question. But, in fact, their decision did spark a long-running feud between two of the world’s biggest Apples.

Once Apple Computer began getting attention, Apple Corps sued it. In 1981 settlement, Apple Computer agreed to stick to computers, leaving the music to Apple Corps.

In the late 1980’s former Beatle George Harrison saw that the Macintosh computer could be used to computer music and could include a device that would allow musician to program instruments. Apple Corps sued again.

After a month-long trial, the two sides reached a new settlement, with Apple Computer paying an estimated $26.5 million to resolve the issue.

The creation of iTunes store in 2003 reopened the old wound and led to another lawsuit. The two reached the final agreement in 2007, giving Apple control of all the trademarks, some of which is licensed back to the Beatles’ Apple Corps.

Even so, Beatles music wasn’t available on iTunes till 2010.

It was, as far too many stories noted over the years, a long and winding road.

Simply English!

GRE STUDENT: Individual who make their abodes in vitreous edifices would be advised to refrain from catapulting perilous projectiles.

NORMAL PERSON: People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.

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GRE STUDENT: Scintillate, scintillate, asteroid minim.

NORMAL PERSON: Twinkle, twinkle, little star.

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GRE STUDENT: All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not truly auriferous.

NORMAL PERSON: All that glitter is not gold.

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GRE STUDENT: Sorting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted.

NORMAL PERSON: Beggars are not choosers.

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GRE STUDENT: Male Cadavers are incapable of rendering any testimony.

NORMAL PERSON: Dead men tell no tales.

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GRE STUDENT: Neophyte’s serendipity.

NORMAL PERSON: Beginner’s luck.

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GRE STUDENT: A revolving lithic conglomerate accumulates no congeries of small, green, biophytic plant.

NORMAL PERSON: A rolling stone gathers no moss.

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GRE STUDENT: Pulchritude possesses solely cutaneous profundity.

NORMAL PERSON: Beauty is only skin deep.

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GRE STUDENT: It is fruitless to become lachrymose of precipitately departed lactile fluid.

NORMAL PERSON: There is no use crying over spilt milk.

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GRE STUDENT: Surveillance should precede saltation.

NORMAL PERSON: Look before you leap.

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GRE STUDENT: Exclusive dedication to necessitous chores without interludes of hedonistic diversion renders Jack a hebetudinous fellow.

NORMAL PERSON: All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

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GRE STUDENT: Where there are visible vapours having their provenance in ignited carbonaceous materials, there is conflagration.

NORMAL PERSON: Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.

Apples for the Teachers

Apples for the Teachers

From almost the beginning of the company, apple helped bring computers into schools.

When Mike Markkula’s daughter was in grade school in 1978, he began to believe a computer could help her learn maths. Inspired by the belief, the Apple Education Foundation was formed to give the money and computers to teachers and others who wanted to write educational software.

It was a clever move; more educational software was available from the Apple II computers, more schools bought them than other brands, and many young people got their first introduction to computing on an Apple. Then, because kids were familiar with the computers at school, they asked their parents to buy them.

In early 1980s, Steve Jobs tried to convince Congress to pass a bill to allow Apple to donate one hundred thousand computers to school in exchange for a tax deduction. Jobs called it the kids can’t wait law, but it never got out of the senate. California, however, got on board and Apple ended up donating about ten thousand computers to the state’s schools.

The company tried to build the same kind of brand loyalty between Macintosh and college students, using universities to commit millions of dollars to bring personal computing to their programs. Again, as a result, Apple’s computers were the top choice on campus.

Even today, Apple gives a discount to college students who but its computers. And in 2011, it arranged for the nine thousand college graduates who are part of tech for America to each receive a refurbished iPad.

The World Around Us

In the one of the survey conducted worldwide. The only question asked was –

“Would you please give your most honest opinion about solutions to the food shortage in the rest of the world?”

The survey was a HUGE failure.

In Africa, they don’t know what “food” meant.

In Western Europe they did not know what “shortage” meant.

In Eastern Europe they did not know what “opinion” meant.

In the Middle East they did not know what “solution” meant.

In South America they did not know what “please” meant.

In Asia they did not know what “honest” meant.

And in the USA they did not know what “the rest of the world” meant.

Alzheimers’ Eye Test

Count every “F” in the following text:

FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE-

SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTI-

FIC STUDY COMBINED WITH

THE EPERIENCE OF YEARS…

(SEE BELOW)

HOW MANY?

…………………3?

WRONG, there are 6!- N        O JOKE.

READ IT AGAIN !

The reasoning behind is further down.

The brain cannot process “OF”.

Incredible or what? Go back and look again!!

Anyone who counts all 6 “F’s” on the first go is a genius.

Three is normal four is quite rare.

Deliver a Baby in…What YOU Think!

• Project Manager is a person who thinks nine women can deliver a baby in one month.2. Developer is a person who thinks it will take 18 months to deliver a baby.
•  Onsite Coordinator is one who thinks single women can deliver nine babies in one month.
• User is the one who doesn’t know why he want’s baby.
•  Marketing Manager is a person who thinks he can deliver a baby even if no man and women are available.
• Resource Optimization Team thinks they don’t need a man or women; they‘ll produce a child with zero resources.
•  Documentation Team thinks they don’t care whether the child is delivered, they’ll just document 9 months.
• Quality Auditor is the person who is never happy with the PROCESS to produce a baby.

Woodside

In the early 1990’s, Jobs and Powell settled into their Palo Alto home, fitting in so easily that they often left the back door unlocked. But in the old Woodside neighbourhood, Jobs ended up in a long and bitter betel over the mansion he left behind.

Jobs kept the Woodside house, a sprawling 17,000-square feet Spanish Colonial Revival with fourteen bedrooms and thirteen-and-a-half baths, with the hope of someday tearing it down and building a smaller, simpler home there.

For some years, his family used the house and its swimming pool for parties. When President Bill Clinton and his wife, Hillary, came to visit his daughter, Chelsea, at Stanford, they stayed in another house on the wooden property.

In mid-2004, Jobs asked the town’s planning commission to allow him to bulldoze the mansion, built in 1926 for cooper magnate Daniel C. Jackling. Jobs said it was poorly built and called it “one of the biggest abominations of a house I’ve ever seen.”

Neighbours, however, called it historic and argue that it should be preserved.

The commission agreed to let Jobs demolish the house, but only if he tried for a year to find someone to move the structure somewhere else. The town council upheld that decision in early 2005. But the neighbours sued and a judge blocked the demolition.

Starting in about 2000, jobs left the house open to the elements and by late in the decade, it was rotting and falling apart.

In 2009, Jobs finally got another demolition permit. To the disappointment of neighbours, the house was torn down in February 2011. By then, however, Jobs wasn’t interested in building a new home.